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This book is an absolute must-read for educators.Educator fatigue and burnout are at an all-time high. Students are carrying their mental and emotional exhaustion into the classroom.Intentional Neuroplasticity explores the plasticity of the brain and nervous system, while learning how adversity and trauma impact a student's developing nervous system to affect behaviors--which ultimately changes the way educators approach discipline and engagement.Neuroplasticity is more than the latest and greatest buzzword-when educational practitioners are informed and encouraged to share this dynamic, miraculous superpower of human potentiality, both teachers and children understand why they feel the way they do, and how feelings and thoughts impact their mood, motivation, and engagement. When we empower and relieve our nervous systems with the language of science and deepened understanding of why we sense, feel, and behave the ways we do, we are preparing for a lifetime of possibility through the knowledge of brain and body architecture and plasticity.With the growing body of research in relational and affective neuroscience, our schools can benefit and serve the whole student as we prioritize the nervous system by addressing the embodied experiences, generational and historical trauma, and the stories they hold.Lori Desautels is a teacher, not a neuroscientist-she knows that the translations and applications from the affective, developmental, social, and relational neuroscience research are critical to educational practitioners now more than ever. No one could have been prepared for the emotional and social losses, challenging behaviors, and dysregulation that are impacting the well-being of our students during the past few years-our collective nervous systems feel the tension and unrest. Intentional Neuroplasticity: Moving Our Nervous Systems and Educational System Toward Post-Traumatic Growth can provide educators cutting-edge information, practices, tools, and exercises to regulate and empower themselves and their students for resiliency and success! KIRKUS¿REVIEWS writes: "A manual for empathic and trauma-informed teaching. In her latest book, Desautels, an assistant professor in Indiana-based Butler University's College of Education, builds on her work in Connections Over Compliance (2020) to offer a framework to create an effective learning environment for students while also optimizing teachers' mental health. Drawing on applied educational neuroscience and polyvagal theory (which foregrounds the role of the vagus nerve on emotions and reactions to trauma), Desautels explains how to approach and maintain emotional regulation, help students achieve stability, and create a supportive environment that allows space for learning. The book encourages teachers to coregulate with students, modeling such behaviors as deep breathing, taking breaks, and mindfulness, while also understanding that the methods they find most useful may not be the ones their students prefer. Desautels addresses the specific problems that the Covid-19 pandemic has brought to the learning experience but reminds readers that there's always been a need for welcoming approaches to teaching. The book includes several 'Guest Reflections' by other teachers, which offer additional perspectives on trauma-informed teaching and provide concrete examples of implementing this book's highlighted techniques. Desautels acknowledges that her methods may require a fundamental shift in classroom management, but she persuasively presents the work as worthwhile.

BARR NONE is a story of corruption, secrets, alliances, betrayal, and an unsolved murder case, all set against the backdrop of New York City Big Law, written by former Big Law insider, Amy Impellizzeri.Carly Jenner is a rising star attorney at one of the most prestigious law firms in New York City: Barr Knoll LLP, named for the larger-than-life founder for whom Carly has wanted to work since she was a little girl. Carly's closest friend at the firm and in life is her colleague, Rain Street - the brilliant, gritty daughter of a prominent film star. Rain is obsessed with the fate of three former Barr Knoll associates known colloquially as the "Triplets" as they were inseparable friends and lawyers. Ten years earlier - following a boozy law firm function at Barr Knoll's Riversedge New York estate - the Triplets crashed their car on the way home. The circumstances of the Triplets' death raised the suspicions of the local DA, and manslaughter charges were filed. But the charges were quickly dismissed and the files were sealed. When Rain goes missing after a drunken night, Carly doesn't know what to make of her disappearance. But clues are starting to point to a powerful woman at the center of the Triplets' case - whose identity is still unknown. She is referred to only as the "Times Square Madam" in redacted legal papers and for years she apparently worked with young female associates at Barr Knoll. In a dual timeline flashing between the present day and more than a decade earlier when the Triplets were still alive, a story unravels of lies and deception and power grabs at Barr Knoll from the past that have had a lasting ripple effect. Carly and Rain have been unwittingly caught in a firestorm not of their own making, and suddenly Carly finds herself in a life and death race against time to save her career, Rain, and so much more.

Ingrid DiLaurio lives in Riversedge, New York, four express train stops from Manhattan. Don't be fooled: With its tree-lined Main Street, and quaint ambiance, Riversedge is only impersonating a small town. While it's a place small enough for everyone to know each other's secrets, few do. The town revolves around the prestigious Riversedge Law Club, where deals are made and cases are resolved and where Ingrid DiLaurio -- a former lawyer turned nationally recognized podcast host - has never once been made to feel welcome. When Ingrid's husband, Peter, is found dead, and Ingrid's former friend, Opal, is arrested as the prime suspect, the press quickly seizes on Opal's past as a single mom and stripper. Ingrid's first priority is protecting herself and her son, Drake, along with her business, from salacious gossip. But when Opal finds herself in desperate need of a defense lawyer, she tells Ingrid she wants to call in a "favor," and Ingrid reluctantly returns to the law for one last case.As the trial unfolds, Ingrid realizes quickly that she has taken on more than she bargained for, including Opal's dark past, a corrupt judge, a blackmailing prosecutor, another dead body, and a black tinted car that follows her everywhere. In the end, it's clear that both women know more than they are letting on about Peter's death, but who will tell the truth first? And is the truth what anyone really wants to hear?

LOVE, ALICE follows Alice, a middle-aged literature teacher whose lifelong loneliness is exacerbated upon her move from the French countryside to Paris. Alienated from her only daughter and hungry for comfort and companionship, Alicebegins to develop romantic feelings for her quiet, reserved Japanese masseur, Akifumi. Too guarded to tell him the truth face-to-face, Alice instead writes Akifumi a long letter in which she reveals not only her burgeoning love and intense longing for him but also opens up about her difficult, at turns shocking past.

Julie spent twenty years building a rewarding career as a well-respected newspaper executive. However, she was unaware that the company was merging with its digital counterpart until she was abruptly and unceremoniously relieved of her duties. While adapting to her new, slower-paced lifestyle, Julie realizes that there are only so many episodes of The Real Housewives of (fill in the city) that she can watch before she goes out of her mind. After some soul searching, she decides to make use of her now-empty calendar by spending more time with her mother, Suzanne, and daughter, Kylie. The three women are exactly twenty-five years apart in age (25, 50, 75) and have a tight bond built through numerous adventures together including miscalculated marijuana edibles, male relationship wrangling, hole-in-the-wall drinking establishments, ridiculous conversations with complete strangers, and other zany situations.It is a story about three women (and those who love them) as they band together to navigate the physical, mental, and emotional toll the disease takes on their lives. Throughout the journey, they manage to find laughs along with the tears. Shells Make Sand is about learning to love the dysfunctional family you have and honoring the ones you have lost. But most of all, it is about remembering that life is ever-changing and beautiful, just like the hard shells that fade into soft powdery sand.

When trust is violated, can it ever be recovered? Alison Jacobs needs brain surgery and places ultimate trust in her sister's husband, Grant Kaplan, a world-renowned neurosurgeon and expert in treating her condition. But Grant is hiding a dark secret which threatens the outcome: an addiction to prescription pills. As Alison struggles to rebuild her life, Grant's daughter, Sadie, spends more time with a new friend. Frustrated that her parents exclude her from the conversations about her beloved aunt, Sadie makes increasingly risky choices which could endanger not only her, but her entire family. Alison is also harboring her own secret-an extramarital affair with a woman. Her close call with mortality spurs her to take a closer look at her marriage, explore her newfound sexuality and figure out what she wants for her future. How will she rebuild her life and move forward? Can she find a way to repair her broken relationship with her only sister? Secrets swirling around drug use and sexual identity must be dealt with in order for the family to learn to trust each other again.

Best-selling author Bill Sanders and Morgen Remley reunite in an effort to stop a dangerous, ultra-secret government group known as The Seven from staging a coup against the United States. This third novel in The Seven trilogy is the climax of a series of events that began when Paul Watson, an old friend of Bill's, is murdered when the two were searching for Paul's missing ten- year-old daughter. Paul had sworn to Bill that the girl was abducted by a UFO. Only after Paul's death does Bill learn that his friend was telling the truth and learns of The Seven and its shocking role in the UFO phenomenon, as well as his wife's death three years earlier. Bill and Morgen have fallen in love even though he discovers she is working for The Seven but has become disillusioned with the group.Secrets takes Bill and Morgen from New Mexico to the White House as the two struggle to expose The Seven and reveal the truth about UFOs and aliens. Only if they succeed can they be free, and their love realized. Fred Ellis Brock has covered politics, business, and finance for years at The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. He's a professional skeptic who knows institutions form the inside. Like his alter-ego protagonist, Fred has been a best-selling author of personal-finance books. But in the back of his mind, he has always been fascinated by the enigma of UFOs and the possibility of alien visitations. A member of MUFON, he has experienced his own personal unexplained sightings. Fred is also a member of the Authors Guild and is represented by the David Black Literary Agency and AEI Speakers Bureau. www.fredellisbrock.com

Amy Impellizzeri's paraquel to her award-winning debut novel, LEMONGRASS HOPE.I KNOW HOW THIS ENDS commences at a graduation ceremony in Spring 2020 for a very special class all born to mothers who were in and around the twin towers on 9/11, pregnant, and survived. The young valedictorian awaits her parents, who are caught in a time slip, and whose parallel lives are about to crash and burn. Take the "Did that just happen?" from Life of Pi and splice it with the parallel lives and loves Gwyneth Paltrow faced in Sliding Doors, add some ghosts of Sophie's Choice and you've got I KNOW HOW THIS ENDS, but you won't even when you get there.

Best-selling author Bill Sanders reluctantly returns to his hometown of Jefferson, Indiana, almost a year after an old friend, Paul Watson, was murdered while the two were searching for Paul's missing ten-year-old daughter. Paul had sworn to Bill that the girl was abducted by a UFO. Only after Paul's death did Bill come to know that his friend was telling the truth. Bill also learns of the existence of an ultra-secret government group called The Seven and its shocking role in the UFO phenomenon. During his return to Jefferson, Bill makes an astonishing discovery about his and Paul's pasts with UFOs and aliens. This, along with a letter from a dead man about the death of Bill's wife, sets him on a collision course with The Seven. Shadows is a fast-paced tale of conspiracy, murder, and betrayal. It is also a love story. Bill and Morgen Remley, the woman he loves and who he at first thought had betrayed him, are separated by The Seven. Only its demise can allow them to realize their passion for one another.